KDE Software Compilation 4.4.3 Release Announcement

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.3 Released: Codename "cuality"

KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.4
Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes and Translation Updates

May 5th, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC). This month's edition of KDE SC is a bugfix and translation update to KDE SC 4.4. KDE SC 4.4.3 is a recommended upgrade for everyone running KDE SC 4.4.2 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE SC 4.4.3 multi-language support is more complete. KDE SC 4 is already translated into more than 50 languages, with more to come.

KDE SC 4.4.3 has a number of improvements:

Numerous fixes in Konsole, KDE's terminal emulator, among them two possible crashers in session management

Flash plugin support in KHTML has been enhanced to work with newest Youtube skins

Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of
changes that went into KDE SC 4.4.3, you can browse the Subversion log.
KDE SC 4.4.3 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 50+ supported languages.

Installing KDE SC 4.4.3 Binary Packages

Packages.
Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE SC 4.4.3
for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers
have done so.
Some of these binary packages are available for free download from KDE's http://download.kde.org.
Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available,
may become available over the coming weeks.

Compiling KDE SC 4.4.3

Supporting KDE

KDE is a Free Software
community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that
donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and
contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing
documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are
gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page for further information.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free
and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among
KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms,
comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of
software titles in many categories including Internet and web
applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and
software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60
languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility
principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on
Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.

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